recordingindustryvspeople.blogspot.com — We are pleased to announce that the complete transcript of the Duluth, Minnesota, jury trial, which took place October 2, 2007, to October 4, 2007, in Capitol Records v. Thomas, is now available online:
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mark925Dec 29, 2008
$222,000 and those artists won't see a penny of it.
Closed AccountDec 29, 2008
I am for the RIAA on this one, you assclowns really ought to read the transcripts.
niconiconicoDec 29, 2008
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celotilDec 30, 2008
"Alex, read file RIAA Court Transcript dot tee-ex-tee"
celotilDec 30, 2008
Why? There is no way that pirating music, retaining a copy for myself without depriving anyone else the right of ownership, is possibly worth the amounts demanded by the RIAA. You'd get a lesser penalty for stealing the CD's, which would deprive anyone else of ownership.
Closed AccountDec 30, 2008
Again, read the transcript, here I have copied and pasted the RIAA's opening statement. But you really ought to read the whole thing to get a better sense of the argument:"the plaintiffs in this case are record companies that, among other things, record and distribute music. These record companies are made up of real people, ranging from people who find new artists, to people who work to promote new artists, to people who run the sound boards, get the new artists' music recorded, to backup musicians, to graphic artists, to those who deliver my clients' music all around the world. All of these people, Ladies and Gentlemen, face a threat, a significant threat to their livelihoods on a dailybasis and that threat is due in large part to the problem of copyright infringement over the Internet, of which the defendant is part. The problem has not only affected the industry generally, it's affected everyone in it, from top to bottom. In this case the defendant, Jammie Thomas, was distributing over 1,700 music files, that's 1,700 music files, through the so-called Kazaa file sharing or file trading service. Kazaa is K-a-z-a-a. She was distributing 1,700 music files to millions of other people on the Kazaa network, all without the permission of the copyright owners. Even though the infringement in this case was massive, my clients have chosen to focus on a sampling of that and we're suing in this case on 25 sound recordings. My clients claim that the defendant, Ms. Thomas, infringed on their copyrights and 25 sound recordings made famous by people ranging from Gloria Estefan to Green Day, Sarah McLachlan, Sheryl Crow, Journey, and Aerosmith by copying and distributing, copying and distributing these copyrighted recordings to millions of other people using this so-called Kazaa file sharing or file trading service. We're here, Ladies and Gentlemen, to ask you to hold the defendant responsible for her actions. The case begins, as I've said, with what people call a file sharing or file trading service called Kazaa andyou'll hear evidence in the case to explain to you what that is. You'll hear that file sharing is really a bit of a loose term. It isn't sharing in the sense of our kids sharing toys with their friends. Services like Kazaa are designed so that people who use them can trade files, hear music files with users they don't even know. And these services are set up so that the strangers connect to each other completely anonymously, and they do that through made-up user names. Because users connect with each other, directly to each other, sometimes you'll hear the phrase -- and you will hear it in this case, I'm sure -- of peer-to-peer or P2P file sharing because there are people, "people" being peers, communicating with each other, their computers are talking directly to one another. You'll hear in this case how Kazaa works. A user first downloads software. You can search on Google for Kazaa and you can download the software and install it on your own computer. This doesn't happen by accident. When you install it, you have to go through a lot of steps. You go through screen after screen asking -- the computer asking you questions about do you want this, do you want that, and it goes through many, many steps to get this program installedon your computer. Once the program is loaded and installed on the computer, the software creates what is called a share folder or share directory on the user's computer. You can think of it like a file folder. A user then stores all the files that he or she downloads or copies from other people into that folder and the recordings that are in that folder are then being distributed simultaneously to everybody else on the network. Now, how does that happen, how do you share files? The process is quite easy. A user can search for music by artist, song title, album title, or even music category, jazz, top 40 and the like. A user who wants a particular artist, say, types in the artist's name and a screen will come up listing a whole bunch of things available from that artist. You merely click on that entry and in doing so the user gets an exact digital copy into that user's share folder that the user then can listen to as many times as a person wants. We are going to play for you some of these digital files that were recorded as well as legitimate recordings so that you'll be able to hear that they sound exactly the same. These are good, quality digital recordings. So what's happened, then, when this happens, you'll hear, the evidence will show you, the user has made acopy of the recording from somebody else, one of those other peers, that went into the hard drive, no different than if somebody gave someone else a CD and the person had gotten a copy of it. The user then has it and can listen to it forever. But what's important is once the user has made this unauthorized copy in the way I've described, the copy is in the share folder, that share folder I talked about, and is being distributed to everyone else in the network, literally millions of people. And interestingly, the person from whom the user -- the user copied it from somebody else. Well, that person who kind of sent it to the user still has her copy. So at the end of it, you've got two users now who have perfect digital copies of the same recording and both of them are distributing to other people."
travelsonicJan 10, 2009
"his is the same person who claimed that copying a CD you've bought is a nice way of saying "steals one copy", in the same examination."Simply put, she's an idiot.